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| Worker restoring ruins of the Wat Phia Wat temple with damaged Buddha statue. Templeââ¬â¢s brick foundation and a few columns survive. Only Buddha image in Phonsavan area that survived US carpet bombing during the Vietnam war. Constructed around 1322, severely damaged by; Chinese in 1400s, French during the first Indochina War, and finally by Americans in 1966. |
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